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the current 120Gb hdd that comes in the Sammy, is that a standard 2.5″ SATA hdd that can be used in a conventional laptop?
If so, how easy is it to swap it for a larger size, say about 250Gb or even a 320Gb drive?
The hard drive that comes with the NC10 is 160GB, it is a standard size 2.5″ SATA laptop drive.
Dimensions are around 0.37″ x 2.8″ x 3.9″ according to the specs for the drive which shipped in mine.Here is a a guide which shows how to swap the hard drive for an SSD, it’s the same process for a hard drive.
120…160…meh – knew it was 100-something lol.
That’s kinda good being the fact it is a conventional sata laptop drive as I might consider doing an upgrade in the future.
I’m probably going to upgrade to a 320GB 7200rpm Western Digital Scorpio Black (WD3200BJKT) hard drive sometime, or maybe some other drive. As I’m not overly happy with the drive my NC10 came with.
just spotted on Play.com a Western Digital Blue Scorpio 500Gb 2.5″ SATA drive….that’d be a sweet deal for the Sammy…..=)
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just spotted on Play.com a Western Digital Blue Scorpio 500Gb 2.5″ SATA drive….that’d be a sweet deal for the Sammy…..=)
[/quote1230485242]Make a nice birthday present ;o)
any ideas where I could pick one of these up in New York next week when Im laying over for 6 hours….
Do remember that many of these hard drives, especially the faster ones (i.e. 7200 RPM), consume more power and can have an impact on your battery time.
–Ken
[quote1230507896=Replytoken]Do remember that many of these hard drives, especially the faster ones (i.e. 7200 RPM), consume more power and can have an impact on your battery time.[/quote1230507896]
Indeed, though I’d be interested to see how great the impact is, at worst it appears that the 7200rpm WD Scorpio black should consume ~0.5W more than the Fujitsu drive that I currently have and most of the time the difference should be a lot less.Wouldn’t the greater data transfer speed of the 7200 RPM drive result in its running less time than a 5400 RPM drive? That would mitigate the higher power draw when the drive is in use.
I just swapped out my Fujitsu 160 for a Hitachi 200gb 7200rpm I had sitting around. I noticed the temps went up a bit, but nothing worth complaining about. Not sure on how battery life is effected; I spent today cleaning up the install and backing up.
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[quote1230507896=Replytoken]Do remember that many of these hard drives, especially the faster ones (i.e. 7200 RPM), consume more power and can have an impact on your battery time.[/quote1230507896]
Indeed, though I’d be interested to see how great the impact is, at worst it appears that the 7200rpm WD Scorpio black should consume ~0.5W more than the Fujitsu drive that I currently have and most of the time the difference should be a lot less.
[/quote1230525537]While .5W does not sound like much, I am guessing that the magnitude is somewhat greater for this type of low power machine. Personally, I would be less worried about battery life and more about any possible impact on the system and its power supply (e.g. heat). Its probably not an issue, but then again I am not an electrical engineer.
–Ken
I think the total drain for the nc10 is 7w so whilst there could be a difference yes, lets not forget that the battery that comes with are sammies is very good anyway so you’d still be looking at a good running time for a netbook.
In regards to heat, i’ve connected a 5400 and a 7200 2.5 externally to my desktop for a few hours, dure in which they were constantly working and whilst granted the caddies were in the open air and not inside a laptop, they didn’t seem to get any hotter.
Fyi, as far as desktop drives go, for some reason all my 5400’s get hotter than the 7200’s.@Replytoken
Well I’m not all that worried by 0.5W as my NC10 uses anything between ~7W and ~14W, the 0.5W was also worst case though it may be higher.As for the impact on the system with regards to heat, there would be a maximum of ~0.5W additional heat produced which is minimal.
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